FINAL TESTING. A Comelec staff inventories vote-counting machines (VCMs) in this undated photo during their shipment to Negros Oriental last April. The Comelec in the province announced that the May 5 final testing and sealing of these VCMs will be centralized due to security concerns. (PNA photo by Judy Flores Partlow) DUMAGUETE CITY - Just a week before the May 9 polls, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) in Negros Oriental announced Monday that the final testing and sealing of vote-counting machines (VCMs) will be held at centralized venues instead of the polling precincts due to security concerns. Lawyer Lionel Marco Castillano, Comelec-Negros Oriental provincial election supervisor-designate, told the Philippine News Agency the decision was made upon the recommendations of the municipal and city election officers. Originally, the final testing of the VCMs, set on May 5, would have been held at the individual polling precincts where these automated machines are assigned to ensure